LightSail: A Revolutionary Solar Sailing Spacecraft

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Unlimited free energy from the sun will provide CubeSat propulsion and revolutionize access to space for low-cost citizen projects. - Goal Update: Next Destination – $1,000,000! Yet another milestone has fallen behind us. Next stop: $1 million! The $450,000 that we will raise will be used to educate and engage the public about the LightSail project. It’s going to be a BIG stretch, but we can do it! For us to succeed with our BHAAG—that stands for big, hairy, audacious (but achievable!) goal—of having solar sail technology becoming widely adopted, we must do more than ...

Read More run our proof-of-concept mission. We have to tell the world about LightSail! That will happen when we make presentations at scientific and engineering conferences (funded in the last stretch goal), but we need to do more. We need to tell

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